Based on a novel by Liverpool-born author Niall Griffiths, this an uncompromisingly tough watch, a tale of hard drugs and even stronger sex set in Liverpool.

We meet Victor (Julian Morris) who lives 'in a disused school down Anfield. Even got my own classroom’.

Kelly (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) has had a rough time with her former partner, while Victor is falling in with the wrong crowd.

There is an instant attraction between the two which leads to an explosive night of passion.

In a story about the potentially devastating consequences of ‘love’ fuelled primarily by obsession, his relatively kind-hearted vulnerability and her excessively physical reaction to the past sets the pair off on a journey to the darkest of places.

Kelly + Victor is well directed by Kieran Evans and acted with searing honesty by both Morris and Campbell-Hughes, the latter handling her big scene in one extended take with remarkable maturity.